From telling us what food we eat to what medicines we can take, people in power have tried to tell individuals what they shouldn’t put into their bodies for decades. But who should decide what a person can do, the individual or the government?
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Food and Drug Administration: The government agency responsible for determining what food and medicines individuals are allowed to consume.
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With the latest group of Covid-19 restrictions, I thought we had seen the brunt of the attacks on our personal liberty. These actions also allow for some concerning precedents that might be abused, even more than they are now, by future elected officials.
I had expected that we weren’t done with the heavy-handed 
restrictions. (I had hoped, though…) But what I did not expect was for the governor of New York to launch a war on Thanksgiving.
Governor Cuomo has ordered that gatherings be under 10 people in private residences. (What about families with more than 10 people?)
More importantly, since when can the government dictate how you can spend your holiday? When people can come to your house? How many people can be in your home?
(And it’s not just New York—in my own state the government is prohibiting people from different households from gathering together! And no, we’re not in California…)
The whole of 2020 has proved what we have always known—that the government will continue to expand as it takes away our rights. It’s not in the government’s nature to retract or give back powers once they are first taken away.
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